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So, my pony finding expedition yesterday was fruitless. Doubly fruitless, considering my discovery that the UK broadcast of MLP has been tampered with for reasons unknown. How is everypony else?
Sunday, 07-Aug-11 11:20:43 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I also had a fruitless search yesterday! I just wanted to add that pony is now on at 7am.
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@thelastgherkin I don't have Sky, so watching recorded episodes off of my friends Sky+ box yesterday was my first exposure to the UK version.
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@ceruleanspark Wooooow. And was it like twice as gorgeous on telly as you'd ever imagined?
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@thelastgherkin It was a different experience to see it on TV, but...what have they done to the voices?
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@ceruleanspark wait... they changed the voices on the UK version? :O
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@ignaesia The haven't changed the actors. They've just slightly altered the pitch of some of the characters voices to make them sound higher-pitched than they do in the original versions. It's bizarre.
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@ceruleanspark wow, really? Thats odd... like who? examples?
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@ignaesia It's most noticable with the more deeply voiced cast members. You pick it up clearly with Applejack because it doesn't interact well with her accent. Think of how she sounded on Poison Joke and take it down a couple of notches and you'll be in the right sort of area. It really highlights that Rainbow Dash has a lisp because it makes her voice sound a lot more harsh. It's not everyone though. Spike sounds normal, as do Big Macintosh and Mayor Mare, and whoever was complaining about Ditzy Doo in Winter Wrap Up. If anyone owns some audio-capture equipment and some recordings of the british version of the show, I'd be quite interested in comparing the waveforms of character speech.
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@ceruleanspark I don't think they've changed the voices at all. I think it's just the difference between listening to muddy youtube uploads with computer speakers/headphones compared to a pristine television soundtrack.
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